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Saturday, September 8, 2012

Surname Saturday ~ Bailey

BAILEY

First Church in Rowley, Mass.

James Bailey,
and his brother, Richard Bailey, were both early settlers of Rowley,
Massachusetts. Richard arrived in 1638 on the ship “Bevis”. He was voted as “pinder” or “Pound keeper” of
the town pound, in 1660.He was active
in the life of the First Church of Rowley, and is in the 1678 records when he
testified that the Reverend Mr. Phillips was of “unborotherly and unchristian
carriage”. He was also an overseer of the poor,
and selectman in Rowley, Massachusetts.

James
Bayley of Rowley being weake of body, but pfect in understanding and memory, do
make this my
last will and Testament, in manner & forms as followeth, After my debts are
payd I do give and Bequeath, the rest of the estate, God hath given me as
followeth, I doe give unto my daughters Lidia Platts and Demaris Leaver each of
them, Twenty pound a peece and to my daughter Platts, seven pound more, which
is in the hands of Thomas Remington , she is to have that seven pounds when it
is due the twenty pounds a peece, that I do give unto my two daughters, to be
payd in four years time, Also I do give unto my Eldest son John all that land
and meadow, and meadow, that he is now possesed of and halfe of the farme, that
I purchased of mr Rogers and that Land, that Goodman Jackman doth improve, from
merimack River downe to the meadow, my meaneing is from the River, untill it
doth come, as far as mr Phillips his meadow, or the peece comonly cald the five
acres, and the rest of that land, that goodman Jackman doth hire, that is
betweene the sayd fives acres, and crane meadow, to be equally divided, between
my son John and James. Also I doe give unto my son John Bayley, four acres of
land more or less lyeing at the Plainse comonly cald, the Rye Plaine. Also I do
give unto my son James Bayley, all my lands and meadow that I am possessed off
in the Towne of Rowley, with all the buildings upon the same together
with that two acres of meadow that I purchased of goodman Lyon wch was
sometimes Phillip Nellsons of Rowley, the other halfe of the ffarme, that I
purchased of mr Rogers both upland and meadow, I do give unto my sonn James
Bayley, also I do give unto my son John Bayley one ox gate, in east end ox
pasture of Rowley and thre cow gates, and to my sone James two ox gates, in the
sd pasture and thre cow gates. Also I doe give unto my wife, one third part of
my lands in Rowley that James is to have, for her life tyme, and my son James
for to alow her or pay to her one third part that the halfe farme that I have
given him doth yearly produce, also my son John is to pay to her one third pt
that the half farme I have given him doth yearly pduce, and this both of them
to pay dureing her life, my meaneing is, when I say, wt it doth yearly pduce,
is on third part of the rent of it, wt it is lett for, also I doe give unto my
wife one third part of my houshold good, within dores & without. I doe give
unto my son James Allso all my apparrell I do give unto my son John, and I do
make my son James Bayley sole executor of this my last will & testament.
Also my will is, that if my daughter Platts or my daughter Lever doe dye before
the legasies, that I do give them be payd that then the sayd legasies bo payd
to their children, and this I do deliver as my last will August the 8 1677.

James Bayley

Witness:

Phillip Nellson

Ezekeill Northeand

Edna Northend

Proved in Ipswich court Sept 25, 1677 by
the witnesses.

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For more
information:

History of Rowley, by Thomas Gage, 1840

Historical and
Genealogical Researches in the Merrimack Valley, by Alfred Poor, Salem, 1858

Bailey
Genealogy: James, John and Thomas and
their Descendants,
by Gertrude E. Bailey, Abbie F. Ellsworth, William H. Reed and Hollis R.
Bailley, originally in three parts, 1934, now there is a 1984 reprint by Parker
River Researchers, P.O. Box 86, Newbury port, Massachusetts. See Archive.org link at http://archive.org/details/baileygenealogyj00bail

My
Bailey Lineage:

Generation
1: James Bailey, born about 1612 in
England, died 10 August 1677 in Rowley, Massachusetts; married about 1640 to
Lydia Unknown, born about 1616 in England and died 29 April 1704. Eight children.

Generation
2: Lydia Bailey, born September 1644 in
Rowley, died 24 November 1722 in Rowley; married on 8 May 1672 in Rowley to
Abel Platts, son of Samuel Platts and Sarah Bates. He was born about 1650 in Sowerby, Yorkshire,
England and died in 1690 during a military expedition to Cape Breton, Canada. Four children.

7 comments:

Hi Pam - Just came across this website. Richard'd brother, James, andhis wife, Lydia, are my 8th great grandparents. Do you have any knowledgeas to when and where Richard married Edna Halstead? We can find no recordof this marriage in either Yorkshire or in Rowley, MA. Trying to proveif he came from Almondbury in Yorkshire or if he is from Wiltshire to thesouth of the country.;

Hi Heather, Well, I don't have a Richard Bailey ancestor, but since we have other common ancestors, I thought I'd throw around a few surnames of my ancestors from Rowley and see if we connect with any of them: Acye, Boynton, Clarke, Harriman, Hunt, Jewett, Keyes, Sawyer, Swan and Wood. Aloha, Donna

My 7th great grandfather, Capt. Jonathan Bailey was married twice,in Rowley, MA. His second wife was Sarah Jewett. Hers is one of a veryfew old graves in Rowley Pioneer Cemetery that are still legible. His son, Jonathan Bailey (Jr.) was married to Bridget Boynton, daughterof Deacon Joseph Boynton. She was born in 1702-3.

Donna - *sigh* I looked at your Baileys, hoping against hope that I would see a connection to Thomas Bayley married in New London, CT in 1656. He is one of my brick walls. I can find nothing about him (nor can anyone else) before arriving in New London. I believe he came from MA, because that's where early New London settlers came from. Oh well, another day, another brick in the wall. Tim Bailey

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Author of the Nutfield Genealogy blog and occasional genealogy speaker. My family research includes Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, with a smattering of Nova Scotia. Please contact me if you see your ancestors on this blog. I would love to share information. I am the former secretary of the New Hampshire Mayflower Society, former President of the Londonderry Historical Society, member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Mass. Society of Genealogists, The National Genealogical Society, and the New Hampshire Society of Genealogists.